Re: Update documentation and information about OFED
On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 4:49 AM, Benjamin Drung
<benjamin.drung@profitbricks.com> wrote:
> Am Dienstag, den 06.03.2018, 20:33 -0600 schrieb Brian Smith:
>> On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 11:48 AM, Brian Smith
>> <bsmith@systemfabricworks.com> wrote:
>> > On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 6:39 AM, Benjamin Drung
>> > <benjamin.drung@profitbricks.com> wrote:
>> > > Am Montag, den 05.03.2018, 16:12 -0600 schrieb Brian Smith:
>> > > > On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 3:52 PM, Valerio Pachera <sirio81@gmail.
>> > > > com>
>> > > > wrote:
>> > > > > I've been looking about ofed mostly to help a friend finding
>> > > > > the
>> > > > > right
>> > > > > package to install on debian.
>> > > > >
>> > > > > By searchin 'debian ofed' the very first result is:
>> > > > >
>> > > > > https://pkg-ofed.alioth.debian.org/howto/infiniband-howto.htm
>> > > > > l
>> > > > >
>> > > > > I wrote to pgk-ofed-devel (as found in the documentation)
>> > > > > because
>> > > > > the repo
>> > > > > isn't available.
>> > > > > I got a reply from Brian Smith with good information.
>> > > > > Brian points pout that the documentation and the mailing list
>> > > > > are
>> > > > > obsolete.
>> > > > >
>> > > > > Is anyone in this group willing to update infomations on
>> > > > > alioth?
>> > > > > I noticed the proget has been ported to salsa.
>> > > > >
>> > > > > https://salsa.debian.org/hpc-team/pkg-ofed
>> > > > >
>> > > > > The file how-to
>> > > > > https://salsa.debian.org/hpc-team/pkg-ofed/blob/master/howto/
>> > > > > infinib
>> > > > > and-howto.sgml
>> > > > > is still refering to alioth.
>> > > > >
>> > > > > I simply suggest to update or remove obsolete documentation.
>> > > > >
>> > > >
>> > > > As alioth is marked for decommissioning, it probably needs to
>> > > > be
>> > > > configured to permanently redirect those links "somewhere". The
>> > > > salsa
>> > > > link that Valerio referenced is the code to generate the
>> > > > infiniband
>> > > > howto. Has there been any work done to publish this (and other
>> > > > pkg-ofed) documentation on a new server?
>> > >
>> > > I am not aware that any work was done.
>> > >
>> > > I skimmed through the obsolete documentation and here are some
>> > > thoughts
>> > > about the update:
>> > >
>> > > * rdma-core bundles most of the source package
>> > > * The packages are available in Debian 10 (buster) and on
>> > > stretch-backports
>> > > * The binary package rdma-core takes care of loading all
>> > > the kernel modules
>> > > * rdma-ndd (in rdma-core) takes care of naming the node
>> > > * If you want newer code, grab it from
>> > > https://github.com/linux-rdma/rdma-core
>> > >
>> >
>> > Perhaps the documentation should be updated and migrated to
>> > https://wiki.debian.org/InfiniBand? That location would make it a
>> > lot
>> > easier to find. I can take a crack at it if nobody else is
>> > interested
>> > in pursuing this.
>>
>> Perhaps https://wiki.debian.org/RDMA would be a better topic, as the
>> documentation would potentially encompass InfiniBand, RoCE, iWARP,
>> Omni-Path, libfabric and possibly UCX.
>
> Agreed. Feel free to go ahead.
>
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My first revision of the RDMA overview: https://wiki.debian.org/RDMA
Comments/suggestions/corrections/edits welcome.
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Brian T. Smith
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